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Yesterday I ended my day with visa appointments, and today started the same way — with my visa journey. Last night, I tried to make an appointment from 11 PM until 1 AM, but everything was unsuccessful. I saw the same errors again and again, and I couldn’t move past the appointment date selection. Today, the same story repeated. I woke up early in the morning and tried again, but unfortunately, I couldn’t make an appointment even though the site showed free and available dates. I just wasted all my time and nerves on it.

Today, between 4 and 5 PM, the Telegram bot notified me about available appointments. I immediately stopped my work tasks and started trying to book one. But everything wasn’t so easy. I kept getting errors like “Request error, please try again” or “This date is already occupied, please choose another one.” Because of these errors, I couldn’t move to the next step. I was only able to select a date and time, and that’s all I managed to do in about an hour or more. However, this time I noticed one interesting thing — the website worked normally and didn’t block my IP address. I don’t know if that’s good or bad.

My morning started early because, at 6 AM, a fly started bothering me. I don’t know how that fly appeared in autumn, but it successfully annoyed me, and I had to get up. After getting up, I looked out the window — the weather was a little rainy. Even the people outside looked sad, holding umbrellas in their hands and rushing to work. Fortunately, closer to lunchtime, the weather started getting better. And finally, around 11 AM, the sun appeared, and the clouds disappeared.

This day was a little bit unsuccessful because I spent all day working on my task. It was a bit frustrating because I couldn’t find the right solution. Right now, I have no idea how to complete it correctly. Briefly, this task is about cache, and it’s not working correctly. When the user updates or adds new items, they only see the old items without the updates. I spent the entire day on this task, and I hope that tomorrow I can ask my colleagues about it during our meeting.

My morning started as usual. Morning routine, my favorite show "Good Morning America," and my light breakfast. For breakfast I ate cereals with milk and one banana. After breakfast, I continued watching my show, because my breakfast time is just 15–20 minutes. And I can't watch or listen to it fully, therefore I always finish it after my breakfast. Well, when I finished it, I decided to work on my blog again. And today I developed a comments system, but I couldn’t complete all the work I wanted. So, now everyone can leave comments without authorization, and it’s absolutely anonymous. If you want to use your name, you should sign up and log in — then you automatically can write comments with your name. Soon everyone can control their comments and other things from a private profile. I promise this, and I will do it soon.

The day was sunny and warm. As I mentioned yesterday, I planned to repeat the same route where I had previously broken my bike. Luckily, I managed to do it this time. During the second part of the day, from 12 p.m. until 3 p.m., I rode my bicycle. Along the way, I visited Black Lake and some other places where I also walked. In total, I rode about 13 kilometers. I also recorded a video on my GoPro, but I’m not sure when I’ll publish it. I still haven’t uploaded my travel videos from Portugal, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and the UAE, because I haven’t found enough time for editing, and my laptop is very slow for video processing.

I want to start with my blog metrics. Yesterday, my blog was visited by 10 unique users from abroad. I found it a bit strange because six of them were from Oregon, USA. All of these users had unique statuses, but they visited at almost the same time. They used Windows, Apple, and Linux operating systems. The total time on my site was between 30 seconds and 2 minutes. For me, that was unusual. I think maybe someone found my blog and shared the link with other people. Besides that, my blog was also visited from Germany (Saxony) and the Netherlands (Drenthe). I often see these visitors, and they watch my blog actively. The metric system couldn’t detect their gender. I can’t fully trust it, because maybe someone from my own country is using a VPN. But I’m not sure, because when I tried visiting my blog through a VPN, the system didn’t record my visit.

In this post, I wrote about how I broke my bicycle. Yesterday, I received the broken part. I ordered it from AliExpress for $10 because I couldn’t find the same part in local or online shops. The part took 13–14 days to arrive from China. I measured it, and it is 100% identical to the broken one. Soon, I will try to install it on my bicycle and go down that hill again—if the weather is good for cycling.

When I got up, I didn’t have much time to get ready for work. I quickly brushed my teeth and washed my face because I was already a little bit late. I only had 10–15 minutes before work started, so my morning was super rushed. I couldn’t even eat breakfast. I just drank some filtered water with lemon and tried a small piece of waffle. I also couldn’t watch my daily show “Good Morning America”, which I usually watch every day during breakfast. This happened because last night I spent the whole night learning the Google Maps API, trying to figure out how to draw my flights. Luckily, everything was successful—I finally understood it, and soon I’ll update my map and show all my flights.

Today the weather was sunny, and it was a busy day. After my morning meeting, I couldn’t start my work tasks. Instead of working on my tasks, I worked on my own personal tasks. I can explain what happened, but first, I want to say what I did with my blog. I finished the text for my “About Me” page and will publish it soon. Second, I started exploring the Google Maps API because I want to update a map to show my flight routes. I hope it will be very interesting and interactive.

Today my morning surprised me again. It was very sunny outside, and I didn’t see a single cloud in the sky. The sky was ridiculously clear and blue. However, the temperature was lower, approximately 5–10 degrees. Even when I went to my balcony with my mug of water, I immediately felt how the cold started to freeze me. Therefore, I couldn’t stay there long and enjoy the sunny weather. Yes, I could have worn my coat, pants, and woolen socks, but I didn’t — I don’t know why. If tomorrow is the same, maybe I’ll wear my winter clothes… if I can find them.

Today my morning started at 10 AM because yesterday I was very tired. So today I decided to sleep a little longer and regain some energy. I also had special plans for this day. I wanted to update a few pages of my blog and spend the whole day at home. I honestly don’t even remember the last time I spent my weekend at home. I just wanted to stay inside, relax slowly, and enjoy the weekend without any worries. Everything went exactly as I planned, and I spent my day peacefully.